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- catalog abstract "For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Dr Bell's fresh readings of Goethe's major and lesser-known texts are set against the background of the science and philosophy of the age, and the writer's debts to other thinkers are analysed. The development of Goethe as a writer and thinker is traced from his sentimental epistolary novel Werther - read in the context of the rise of psychological theory in the Enlightenment - to the emergence of his own theory of 'empirical psychology' in the great roman a clef of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften. In a major new interpretation of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Matthew Bell follows the ideal of organic growth from the novel's origins in Enlightenment optimism to its revision in an atmosphere of post-revolutionary scepticism. Placing Goethe in an anthropological context, Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology demonstrates that eighteenth-century anthropological thought provides an essential, hitherto overlooked context for the understanding of Goethe's literary enterprise from Werther to Die Wahlverwandtschaften.".
- catalog alternative "Man and other plants".
- catalog contributor b6517064.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Dr Bell's fresh readings of Goethe's major and lesser-known texts are set against the background of the science and philosophy of the age, and the writer's debts to other thinkers are analysed. The development of Goethe as a writer and thinker is traced from his sentimental epistolary novel Werther - read in the context of the rise of psychological theory in the Enlightenment - to the emergence of his own theory of 'empirical psychology' in the great roman a clef of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften.".
- catalog description "For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment.".
- catalog description "Goethe and the anthropology of the European enlightenment -- Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers -- Weimar anthropology -- Man and other plants -- Empirical psychology.".
- catalog description "In a major new interpretation of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Matthew Bell follows the ideal of organic growth from the novel's origins in Enlightenment optimism to its revision in an atmosphere of post-revolutionary scepticism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Placing Goethe in an anthropological context, Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology demonstrates that eighteenth-century anthropological thought provides an essential, hitherto overlooked context for the understanding of Goethe's literary enterprise from Werther to Die Wahlverwandtschaften.".
- catalog extent "x, 346 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Goethe's naturalistic anthropology.".
- catalog identifier "0198158947 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Goethe's naturalistic anthropology.".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford modern languages and literature monographs".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Goethe's naturalistic anthropology.".
- catalog subject "831/.6 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropology in literature.".
- catalog subject "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 Knowledge Anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Literature and anthropology.".
- catalog subject "PT2198 .B45 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Goethe and the anthropology of the European enlightenment -- Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers -- Weimar anthropology -- Man and other plants -- Empirical psychology.".
- catalog title "Goethe's naturalistic anthropology : man and other plants / Matthew Bell.".
- catalog title "Man and other plants".
- catalog type "text".